The spirit catches you and you fall down : a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures by Anne Fadiman(
Book
)37
editions published
between
1997
and
2012
in
English
and held by
3,905 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set
in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were
part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit
and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants, adhering steadfastly to the rituals and
beliefs of their ancestors. Lia's pediatricians, Neil Ernst and his wife, Peggy Philip, cleaved just as strongly to another
tradition: that of Western medicine. When Lia Lee entered the American medical system, diagnosed as an epileptic, her story
became a tragic case history of cultural miscommunication. Parents and doctors both wanted the best for Lia, but their ideas
about the causes of her illness and its treatment could hardly have been more different. The Hmong see illness and healing
as spiritual matters linked to virtually everything in the universe, while medical community marks a division between body
and soul, and concerns itself almost exclusively with the former. Lia's doctors ascribed her seizures to the misfiring of
her cerebral neurons; her parents called her illness, qaug dab peg--the spirit catches you and you fall down--and ascribed
it to the wandering of her soul. The doctors prescribed anticonvulsants; her parents preferred animal sacrifices

At large and at small : familiar essays by Anne Fadiman(
Book
)7
editions published
between
2007
and
2008
in
English
and held by
671 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
[In this volume, the author] returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay - a beloved and hallowed literary tradition
recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With the combination of humor
and erudition that has distinguished her as one of our finest essayists, [she] draws us into twelve of her personal obsessions:
from her slightly sinister childhood enthusiasm for catching butterflies to her monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from her
wistfulness for the days of letter-writing to the challenges and rewards of moving from the city to the country

An introduction to The shawl by Cynthia Ozick by Adam Kampe(
Recording
)4
editions published
between
2007
and
2008
in
English
and held by
533 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Discusses the theme and characters in Ozick's novel and includes excerpts from the book and background information on the
author

Rereadings(
Book
)7
editions published
between
2005
and
2010
in
English and Chinese
and held by
477 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Answering the question "is a book the same the second time around?" this collection of essays includes contributions from
Sven Krkerts, Allegra Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc Sante, among others

The best American essays 2003(
Book
)2
editions published
in
2003
in
English
and held by
379 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A collection of the finest nonfiction essays published over the past year incorporates the work of distinguished masters of
the essay genre

Ex libris : confessions of a common reader by Anne Fadiman(
Book
)26
editions published
between
1998
and
2011
in
8
languages
and held by
93 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"A collection of essays discusses the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life."

At large and at small : confessions of a literary hedonist by Anne Fadiman(
Book
)5
editions published
between
2007
and
2008
in
English
and held by
76 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay - a beloved literary tradition
recognized for both its intellectual breadth ("at large") and its miniaturist focus ("at small"). With the combination of
humor and erudition that has distinguished her as one of our finest essayists, Fadiman draws us into twelve of her personal
obsessions, ranging from her slightly sinister childhood enthusiasm for catching butterflies to her monumental crush on Charles
Lamb, from her wistfulness for the days of letter-writing to the challenges and rewards of moving from the city to the country."--Jacket

<> by Anne Fadiman(
Book
)7
editions published
between
1997
and
2007
in
4
languages
and held by
19 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

The opposite of loneliness : essays and stories by Marina Keegan(
Book
)5
editions published
between
2014
and
2015
in
English
and held by
18 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title
essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation. Marina Keegan's star was on the
rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York International
Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at the New Yorker . Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car
crash. As her family, friends, and classmates, deep in grief, joined to create a memorial service for Marina, her unforgettable
last essay for the Yale Daily News, "The Opposite of Loneliness," went viral, receiving more than 1.4 million hits. Even though
she was just twenty-two when she died, Marina left behind a rich, expansive trove of prose that, like her title essay, captures
the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. Her short story, "Cold Pastoral," was published in NewYorker.com
just months after her death. The Opposite of Loneliness is an assemblage of Marina's essays and stories, which, like The Last
Lecture, articulate the universal struggle that all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be, and how we harness our
talents to impact the world--Provided by publisher

The wine lover's daughter : a memoir by Anne Fadiman(
Book
)4
editions published
between
2017
and
2018
in
English
and held by
9 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"A memoir exploring the author's father's love of wine"--

The big read(
Recording
)
in
English
and held by
9 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Readings of excerpts and critical analysis

The wine lover's daughter : a memoir by Anne Fadiman(
)1
edition published
in
2017
in
English
and held by
4 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A new memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wine In The Wine Lover's
Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines-with all her characteristic wit and feeling-her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman,
a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine. An appreciation of wine-along with a plummy
upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western literature-was an essential element of Clifton
Fadiman's escape from lower-middle-class Brooklyn to swanky Manhattan. But wine was not just a class-vaulting accessory; it
was an object of ardent desire. The Wine Lover's Daughter traces the arc of a man's infatuation from the glass of cheap Graves
he drank in Paris in 1927; through the Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 1904 he drank to celebrate his eightieth birthday, when he
and the bottle were exactly the same age; to the wines that sustained him in his last years, when he was blind but still buoyed,
as always, by hedonism. Wine is the spine of this touching memoir; the life and character of Fadiman's father, along with
her relationship with him and her own less ardent relationship with wine, are the flesh. The Wine Lover's Daughter is a poignant
exploration of love, ambition, class, family, and the pleasures of the palate by one of our finest essayists

At large and at small : familiar essays by Anne Fadiman(
Recording
)1
edition published
in
2007
in
English
and held by
3 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
[In this volume, the author] returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay - a beloved and hallowed literary tradition
recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With the combination of humor
and erudition that has distinguished her as one of our finest essayists, [she] draws us into twelve of her personal obsessions:
from her slightly sinister childhood enthusiasm for catching butterflies to her monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from her
wistfulness for the days of letter-writing to the challenges and rewards of moving from the city to the country.-http://www.loc.gov/catdir